Nowhere is that illustrated better than Senator Lynn Ruane's award-winning memoir People Like Me (Gill Books). His latest book, Identity (Profile Books), examines two of the most pressing issues of our age - identity politics and the cost of globalisation. Rock may be the subject of some of the year's best music books, but jazz gets a look in, too. Darina Allen: Simply Delicious the Classic Collection is published by Kyle Books in HardbackDarina Allen's Simply Delicious: The Classic Collection (Kyle) has 100 recipes from three of her previous top-selling books which are all thoroughly dog-eared and floury in our house so the new hardback book is a nice treat. While his career only lasted from 1913 to 1931, Harry Clarke was operating at a key juncture in Irish history.

Source: Irish Independent December 15, 2018 02:26 UTC